Know what is driving the commissioning approach

We are focused on building stronger relationships that change the way government and non-government sector partners deliver services and achieve positive outcomes for our community.

We do this because we acknowledged through the 2021 development of our commissioning approach that:

• our current funding practices lack flexibility to respond to community needs
• investment in service provision has primarily been skewed towards provision of crisis services rather than services providing early support
• prevention and early support can reduce crisis service demand and provide better outcomes for people
• sector partners and people with lived experience have valuable insights and expertise to inform service and system design
• where we have worked together to identify needs and gaps and design solutions, people have better outcomes.

Page updated: 28 Feb 2024